Baku, Azerbaijan, June 29
Trend:
The number of inspections of business in Kazakhstan by government agencies has decreased by almost 77 percent over the past eight years, the Minister of National Economy Timur Suleimenov said, Kazakh media reported June 29.
"According to the data of the country's legal statistical bodies, the total number of inspections in respect to business entities has decreased by 4.2 times or 76.6 percent since 2010," Suleimenov said during the "Partnership of state and business" forum.
He noted that, last year 81,659 inspections were carried out in the country against 349,236 inspections in 2010.
Suleimenov reminded that new instruments of state control and supervision were introduced in Kazakhstan, in particular the preventive control institution has been established, under which the representative of the state body will have to tell the business representative how to eliminate a violation in case of detection of such violations instead of initiating administrative proceedings.
"At the same time, in the case of detection of gross violations as a result of preventive control, the state body shall retain the right to re-conduct a repeated unscheduled inspection to ensure that the violation has been eliminated," he stressed.
In addition, the minister recalled that the law "on changes and amendments to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on improving the regulation of business activity" signed by the head of state on May 24 is supposed to regulate the activities of natural monopolies and quasi-public sector entities in the area of provision of services to individuals and legal entities, which are now carried out by them on a paid basis.
"The government will approve the list of such services, and 75 of them have been identified by now, and the Ministry of National Economy will approve the procedure for their provision and will monitor their provision, and as a result, the rights and interests of entrepreneurs will be protected," Suleimenov said.